20 Easter Eggs From Spider-Man: No Way Home You May Have Missed
The new Spidey film is full of both MCU AND Spider-Man Easter eggs as a huge thank you to fans.
Let's get this out of the way right off the bat. Consider this a MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING if you haven't yet seen No Way Home.
It is safe to say that Spider-Man : No Way Home is turning out to be the biggest movie release of the year, attracting both superhero movie fans and those simply attracted to cinema spectacle.
Like most MCU and Spider-Man movies, No Way Home is full of nods to many things: comic book history, the previous Spider-Man films starring Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield, the larger MCU, video games, even memes. It is likely to take multiple viewings, or, when the time comes, a quick finger on the Pause button, to catch them all, as it seems the creatives behind No Way Home went above and beyond in laying out fun bits of trivia throughout the movie.
We won't be discussing any of the big plot points, which by this case are common knowledge - the return of several villains from previous Spidey films, the coming together of the three Spider-Men, the appearance of Matt Murdock / Daredevil, Aunt May's death, and so on.
We'll be focusing on smaller things, those blink and you miss them moments, or things you weren't totally sure about because you haven't obsessively consumed all things Spider-Man for the last two decades. Hopefully, armed with this list, you'll be able to enjoy your second (or third) viewing at a more leisurely pace and spot these easter eggs.
20. Connections To The Marvel Cinematic Universe
Given how many threads weave in and out between Sony's Spider-Man and the MCU, we're lumping all these small things into one big MCU Easter Egg:
- Peter and MJ swing past a billboard for Rogers: The Musical, which ties the timing of No Way Home in with the currently airing Hawkeye show
- A copy of Captain America's shield is being added to the Statue of Liberty to mark his passing, which is also alluded to in Hawkeye when Kate suggests Yelena visit the new, improved Statue
- A news show discussing Stark Industries uses a picture of Happy with his 1999-era mullet as seen in Iron Man 3
- Happy's safehouse is full of nods; Downton Abbey, a hook full of swipe cards that the security-conscious Happy loves, and he has kept Tony's robot DUM-E around
- Peter, MJ and Ned choosing MIT is a nice tribute to being both Tony Stark's alma mater and the location of his speech from Civil War, which introduced Spider-Man to the MCU
- Damage Control, first appearing in Homecoming as a superhero battle clean-up service funded by Stark, still exists and in fact seems to now have law enforcement powers
- At the climax, Strange creates a circle of runes like Wanda does during her battle with Agatha, showing that he created and owns that magical space
Disney and Marvel must have had a blast creating these.